[OutVoice] Grammy Affirmations + global LGBT news

[Greg Gordon]

"THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine"
Program #1,349 - distributed 02/03/14
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(hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
The Grammys affirm talent and love;
A human rights crisis engulfs Kyrgyzstan, an Ivory Coast crackdown
sends activists into hiding, India's Supreme Court lets the gay sex ban
stand, Singapore's P.M. can't tell rights from wrong, Northern Cyprus
repeals its sodomy law, President Musevini stalls Uganda's "Anti-
Homosexuality Bill" for science, and more LGBT news

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 In "NewsWrap": Rampant police abuse is creating "nightmarish" 
conditions for gay and bisexual men in Kyrgyzstan [with comments by 
Human Rights Watch LGBT researcher ANNA KIREY], while a homophobic mob 
breaks into and overruns the office of Alternative Cote d'Ivoire, the 
leading LGBT advocacy group in the Ivory Coast, seriously injuring a 
security guard and stealing most everything they didn't vandalize… 
India's Supreme Court refuses to reconsider its 2 judge panel's December
 ruling that recriminalized private consensual adult gay sex, and 
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says it's not the government's 
responsibility to protect gay rights, but lawmakers in Northern Cyprus 
remove the last vestige of laws that banned gay sex in Europe… Ugandan 
President Yoweri Museveni now says he wants scientific proof that being 
gay "is not genetic, but a behavior that is acquired" before he'll sign 
the draconian "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" there…  Bulgarian lawmakers 
reject a bill that would have outlawed just being out… and more LGBT 
news from around the world (produced by STEVE PRIDE, written by GREG 
GORDON, and reported this week by MICHAEL LEBEAU & NATALIE PEOPLES).


= A "This Way Out" GRAMMYS Special =
- It was the ceremony as much as the song that put MACKLEMORE AND RYAN 
LEWIS' Grammy Awards performance into the history books. During their 
hip-hop anthem "SAME LOVE," thirty-three diverse couples were serenaded 
with the help of MARY LAMBERT, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE, and surprise guest MADONNA, and legally married by a QUEEN – LATIFAH, that 
is.

- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis followed their four-trophy Grammy night with a return the next day to ELLEN DEGENERES' TV talk show.

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 The religious right called the ceremony "perverse," "agitprop," 
"craptacular," and even "intolerant" and "bigoted." The *satirical* 
right was represented, as always, by Comedy Central's STEPHEN COLBERT.

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 And 'lest we forget, rising young country star HUNTER HAYES debuted his
 anti-bullying track "INVISIBLE" earlier in the evening for the first 
supportive Grammy showstopper. 
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